October 6, 2025 | Market Pulse: AMD, Gold, Bitcoin & the S&P 500

A quick review of some key market sectors. AMD AMD surged today on the news that OpenAI will ~ $100 billion in AMD. The deal also grants OpenAI a warrant to acquire up to 160 million AMD shares – roughly 10% of the company – at $0.01 per share, with the stake earned progressively as key technology and revenue milestones […]

October 6, 2025 | Millions Sign Petition to Dismantle UK Digital ID System

  The people of the United Kingdom are fighting back against the government’s plan to roll out a digital ID system. The petition to counter the legislation quickly became the fastest-growing online petition in UK history, with over two million people signing in less than 48 hours. “We demand that the UK Government immediately commits […]

October 6, 2025 | Breakthroughs: Is Aging a Curable Disease?

The Fountain of Youth might predate gold as humanity’s earliest obsession. But here we are, 10,000 years into the quest with little to show for it. Some common-sense lifestyle tweaks (stay slim, exercise, manage stress, don’t smoke) are worth maybe an extra decade of active life. But no magic bullet of any kind has emerged. […]

October 6, 2025 | Consumer Collapse in Motion

Add leverage and stir has been the recipe for economic expansion at all costs; thus, the seeds of a credit implosion have been planted (again). We reap what we sow, and so it goes. In this episode of The Weekly Wrap, Steve Eisman interviews Lakshmi Ganapathi from Unicus Research. They discuss why U.S. consumers are […]

October 6, 2025 | Unsold Inventory Steve Saretsky

Happy Monday Morning! Last week we penned an article titled ‘Intervention Required’ in which we highlighted the growing chorus of developers demanding immediate government intervention to arrest the collapse in the new housing industry. With home sales in Canada’s largest major metro running 90% below the long term average, things are starting to get out […]

October 5, 2025 | Interview: Gold $5K, Dow 65K, & Florida’s New Wall Street — Part 2 Armstrong Unfiltered

If you missed Part 1 click here

October 5, 2025 | Big Debt Cycles

Debt is a curse that can also be a blessing, depending on how the borrower uses it. Sadly, human nature seemingly ensures we often use debt unproductively—and not just as individuals. Governments have their own special way of using debt to buy benefits (and votes?) today that future generations will pay for. I have said […]

October 4, 2025 | The Trading Desk Notes for October 4, 2025

Leading global stock indices surge to record highs The S&P has rallied ~40% from its April lows, up ~13.5% YTD. The S&P is up ~5.5% since the FOMC cut rates on August 22 (blue ellipse), and signalled more cuts to come over the next few months. Big Cap Tech/AI continues to power the rally in US stocks, […]

October 4, 2025 | How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain

From Scheerpost The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independent of Congress and the Treasury. Its independence was formalized only in 1951, with a Treasury-Federal Reserve Accord that was not a law but a policy agreement redefining the relationship of […]

October 4, 2025 | AI at its Finest



October 4, 2025 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark: Stock Markets, S&P, Gold, Oil, USD, Canadian Dollar, Bitcoin.
• Martin Straith:  (10:38) US Government Shutdown and the Markets, Market Trends, Bitcoin, Gold, Uranium, DeFi.
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October 4, 2025 | Tech Talk for Saturday October 4th 2025

The Bottom Line The calm before the storm! Frequency of quarterly reports by North American companies reaches a low point this week: Many companies are in the “quiet zone” period prior to release of results. Consensus shows that analysts are expecting lower earnings growth in the third quarter relative to the second quarter when earnings […]

October 3, 2025 | Cut Throat Competition in China Could Spread Worldwide

China’s War on “Involution” China is cracking down on “blind and disorderly competition,” also called involution. Factories keep building too much — solar, batteries, EVs — and prices collapse. That deflation spills abroad. How low can China push prices — and who gets crushed next? Western firms know the rule: compete with China and prices only […]

October 3, 2025 | DDB: Economic Cracks are Widening

Worthwhile macro update in this segment. Danielle DiMartino Booth, former Fed insider and CEO of QI Research, warns that the US economy is deteriorating rapidly with rising unemployment and corporate bankruptcies despite stock markets reaching new highs. Here is a direct video link.

October 3, 2025 | Taiwan Declines US Demand to Offshore Chip Production

The threat of losing military protection did not persuade Taiwan to move half its chip manufacturing to the United States. Top trade negotiator and vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun stated that the 50-50 proposal would not be considered or even discussed. Instead, Taiwan plans to focus on lowering US-imposed tariffs that now stand at 20%. Commerce […]

October 3, 2025 | Central Banks Won’t be Able to Stop a Market Crash

How long could the next recession last?

October 2, 2025 | Canada Joins UK With Up to Life in Prison for Hate Speech

In Canadian criminal law, “hate crimes” are not a single stand-alone offence, but rather ordinary criminal offences (like assault, mischief, or threats) that are motivated by bias, prejudice, or hatred. Some are specific indictable offences in the Criminal Code: Advocating genocide – s. 318: It is an indictable offence to advocate or promote genocide against […]

October 1, 2025 | Art of the Collapse, October 2025

Things took a dark turn in September. We’ll get to that. But first, the usual corruption and incompetence: Dashboard Now for that dark(er) turn, starting with a Ukrainian woman being stabbed to death on a train… …which was quickly followed by the Charlie Kirk assassination: Universities Quietly Cancel ‘Kill Conservatives 101’ Courses (BabylonBee) – In […]

October 1, 2025 | Economic Hits Keep Coming

While Washington deflects attention with yet another government shutdown standoff, US economic data deteriorated further in September; see US Consumer Confidence Falls to Five-Month Low on Job Concerns. The latest published U.S. Consumer Confidence (Conference Board) index came in at 94.2, down from 97.8 in August (on the lower left since August 2023). The share of […]

October 1, 2025 | Canadian Govt Prepares to Disarm Civilians

There has never been a positive outcome when the government sets out to disarm the people. Authoritarian states are the inevitable result. Certain semi-automatic weapons were prohibited in March 2025, with a one-year amnesty period for lawful gun owners to surrender their rifles through a buyback program. The government claims the buyback program is completely […]